New Delhi: India National Highway Authority (NHAI) has invited offers from insurance companies for the “cash care” roll-out scheme for victims of road accidents in Delhi-Mumbai-Chennai, Chennai-Kolkata, Kolkata-agra, and Agra corridor -Delhi from quadrilateral gold for the next three years.
Bidder will be responsible for coordinating with the transportation of the victim to the nearest health facility and to treat them for the first 48 hours since when hospitalization or providing necessary care up to RS 30,000, which happens early.
“We have carried out the first round of discussions with the main insurance company.
After these companies quote premiums, NHAI pays a number of successful bidders.
The bidders who managed to bind with the hospital around the NH stretched and also walked Helpline 24×7.
Ambulances deployed on the road Raya and with hospitals will be used in the scheme, “said a senior Nhai official.
In 2013, the Ministry of Transportation Road had launched a pilot taxi treatment scheme on stretching Gurgaon-Jaipur.
This is expanded to Blare Mumbai-Vadodara and Ranchi-Rargaon-Mahulia.
The findings show that 100% of victims reach the hospital within 30 minutes and more than 50% of beneficiaries have poor socio-economic status and around 80% pay zero.